AlkyIROC

I was finally able to fire up the car and take it out of the garage last week. This weekend, the girlfriend was over and I got her to take video of the car coming out of the garage. Photos of the car will follow later as I get them off my camera and edited.

Next available race date is July 22. My only goal is to get an 8 second timeslip and not break anything this year.

Coming out of the garage. This is with race mufflers. It's too loud without them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulb1OHQKZXU

AlkyIROC

Here's a bunch of pictures my girlfriend took. The newest ones are at the end of the list.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bubblyb...7627312223357/

daverr

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Sounds awesome. Your neighbors must love you ,haha. I finished installing the engine in my Buick around midnight few years ago, I couldnt wait till mourning to fire it up. After running the engine for about 15 minutes thru the muffler ,reving it a few times was enough for the neighbors to call Chicago`s finest .

AlkyIROC

I've never had a problem with my neighbors. Usually they come around because they want to see the "race car". My neighbor right across the alley has a Harley with open pipes. He's probably louder than I am.

I do however limit how much noise I make. I've loaded the car into the trailer around 6am on a Sunday and have unloaded around 11pm. I simply drive in and out of the trailer and garage without doing any excess idling or reving of the engine. Even with a 6000 stall converter, I can easily drive from the trailer to the garage at an idle.

t-top havoc

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Congrats!!
I'll be watching for times, & I hope you achieve your goal!!

1gary

I'm cheering from the cheap seats.Can't wait to see the time slips.

unknown_host

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Looks and sounds great!

freaky

SOUNDS GREAT AN LOOKS GREAT WAITING IN RACE VIDS !

Shagwell

Nice Stephen! - What combo did you end up going with?

AlkyIROC

Custom built. Total displacement 588 CID

Dart big M 4.600 bored out to 4.620 and has billet main caps
Howards 4.375 crank and billet I-beam rods
JE pistons with .180" wall 52 series wrist pins
Milodon gear drive
Custom grind Predator camshaft very similar to the Comp Cams one I was using but got damaged. .823/.800
GZ Vacuum pump

Still using the same 2R tunnel ram and dual 4.1" toilets and Dart 360 heads which are ported to the max with 2.30/1.88 valves. This year however, I took off the stud rockers with the girdle and installed some Comp Cams shaft rockers made by T&D. Upgraded to thicker wall 3/8" pushrods with 210* tips.

greezemonkey

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diggin the skull and cross bones plate!

AlkyIROC

It's not a great plate but it was the best one I could find. I started using that when the car was cursed and I was using the name Black Pearl on the side of it.

Finally got home to get more engine specs. The pushrods I have are .135" wall which is an upgrade from the .080" wall I was using before. They're from the Comp Cams Hi-Tech line and have a 210* radius on the tips. Going to a 7/16" pushrod would have been nicer but also a lot more expensive. Using triple valve springs, I want as much stability as I can get. The JE pistons are 243329. I don't know the CC of my combustion chambers but these pistons with typical 118cc heads give a compression ratio of 15.7:1 but I've never done the actual calculations. Should make a lot more torque than before. The Howards billet I-beam rods are 6.535" long. The 588 combination still fits in a normal short deck block but you need a block that can be safely bored out to 4.620". The Big M can easily reach that and still have .300" thick cylinder walls.

The billet I-beam rods and 4.620 bore pistons are lighter than the Eagle h-beam rods and 6.200 bore pistons I was using in the 582. Total bob weight for this build is 2172.6 grams

As mentioned in another thread, I took off the aeroscoop I was using to cover the toilets and installed a Hilborn style scoop instead. The aeroscoop was nice as it was very deceiving as to what was under the hood but grabbed a lot of air and by half track I could see the back of the hood starting to lift. This new scoop is attached to the intake manifold and should be much better plus it looks meaner and suits the flames.

AlkyIROC

Cam specs (I was guessing when I was at work earlier)

.833/.809
282/290 @ .050
114 LSA

I have it installed straight up. It was suggested to install it 4* advanced but I like the power curve more when it's straight up. I've checked piston to valve clearance in both positions and still have more than enough room. The cam is also a 4/7 swap.

greezemonkey

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I cannot put a plate on mine because of the chute mounts, put I`m thinking about painting the Pirate flag it on it! The scoop does suit it well, better than the aero IMO

Nice Build, it should run really well, I think that 8 sec slip at altitude is going to be yours finally. I went out with the triple springs on that 548 I built over the winter, I almost had the 8 sec slip on gasoline at 9.03. Last pass I made, one of the redzone`s **** the bed, Isky is doing me good on it but interestingly the conversation about the lifter quickly turned into a discussion about spring set-up. Mine are good for .900 lift and my cam is .825/.775, Set-up for the exhuast side was incorrect, the spring was uncontrolled and caused the lifter failure. Now looking closely at the exhaust springs, the locks are all pulling thru the retainers. The springs are 1010#`s open pressure and having them set up at .125 from bind is a problem. .050 to .070 from coil bind is where it should be set, just a fyi that I learned the expensive way this season

mw66nova

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looks good stephen. here's to hoping you do some good and don't have any failures for a little while.

any chance you'll upgrade to a more modern front wheel? a set of 1pc alumastars would look good on there.

Shagwell

Sounds like a great combination, only thing I would have done any different was a tall deck & more pin height so I could spray the bejesus out of it(lol). - Not neccessary for your purposes though.

Howards makes some great parts & are somewhat more "under the radar" so they don't charge an arm & a leg.